School and Public Health Nursing: Delivering quality for Children and Young People in the New World

THIS IS AIMED AT COMISSIONERS, PROVIDERS, FRONT LINE STAFF AND PARTNERS

WHAT: Key topics will focus on equipping the workforce with the tools to address the well-known impact of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) including: the 5 year forward review and mental health in schools, addressing obesity through working with adolescents, the Youth Violence
Commission and breaking the cycle through dynamic safeguarding children and young people

Let's mean it when we ask "How are You?"Pooky considers the phrase 'how are you?' and the fact that it has become more of a social tic than a meaningful question - I explore how we can
become a little better at asking, and answering, the question 'how are you' and why this would be beneficial.

Adverse childhood experiences increase risk of mental illness, but community support can offer protection.

People who have experienced abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as living with domestic violence during their childhood
are at much greater risk of mental illness throughout life.

Findings from a new national study across Wales found adults who had suffered four or more types of ACE were almost 10 times more likely to have felt
suicidal or self-harmed than those who had experienced none.

Developing resilience through access to a trusted adult in childhood, supportive friends and being engaged in community activities, such as sports,
reduced the risks of developing mental illness; even in those who experienced high levels of ACEs.

Overall having supportive friends, opportunities for community participation, people to look up to and other sources of resilience in childhood more
than halved current mental illness in adults with four or more ACEs from 29 per cent to 14 per cent, and ever having felt suicidal or self-harmed
from 39 per cent to 17 per cent.

Participation in sports both as a child and adult was a further source of resilience to mental illness, with being in current treatment for mental
illness reducing from 23 per cent in adults that did not regularly participate in sports to 12 per cent in those that did.